YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914
AUGUST C. BRUESKE (1898)
August C. Brueske, who owns and farms the north half of the northwest
quarter of section 34, Hazel Run township, is a native of Germany, where he
was ushered into existence July 28, 2873.
August C. is a son of Herman and Johanna Brueske, both natives of Germany.
They came to the United States in 1875 and first located in Nicollet,
Minnesota, where the father followed his trade of carpenter. He later moved
to Renville county and bought a forty-acre tract of land. In the terrible
blizzard of January 12, 1888, he was frozen to death, the body not being
found until a week afterward. The mother is still living, making her home
with her son on the farm in Hazel Run township.
August Brueske was only two years of age on coming to the United States. He
secured his schooling in Renville county and was fourteen years of age at
the time of the death of his father. The family continued to live in
Renville county many years after. In 1898 Mr Brueske came to Yellow
Medicine county and purchased his present farm, where he has since made his
home. He conducts a general farming business, including the raising of
stock for the market.
Mr. Brueske is unmarried, his mother and a sister, Bertha, keeping house for
him. They are members of the German Lutheran Church.